BBC (Friday): Kay queries White House war talk

[Jack Rabbit]

From the BBC Online
Dated Friday February 6 12:02 GMT (4:02 am PST)

Kay queries White House war talk

The White House may have ignored some aspects of intelligence on Iraq in the run-up to war, former chief US weapons inspector David Kay has suggested.
He was reacting to a rare speech by CIA director George Tenet, who said the agency had never asserted that Saddam Hussein was an "imminent threat".
A new commission to study intelligence failures should ask whether political leaders manipulated data, Mr Kay said . . . .
The commission will look at the use of intelligence in assessing the threat from Iraq and elsewhere.
However, it is not clear whether its remit will include asking whether the White House made selective use of intelligence or put pressure on analysts.

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1. Interesting. Kay was at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Whose report released ~2 weeks ago laid out the change over the last several years in the assessment of Iraqi capabilities. It's a damning piece of work.

Kay has so much credibility right now with the administration gimme "We were all wrong". Bush* will have to either widen the investigation or discredit him.

The talk:
http://www.ceip.org/files/events/events.asp?EventID=675

The report:
http://www.ceip.org/